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Patented May 3,1881.

"-FETE-RS, PHOTO-L TNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C llNiT-ED STATES PATENT OFrrcE.

GEORGE THEOBALD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIBDS TO ADAMS & ILSLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

HARNESS-PAD SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,931, dated May 3, 1881.

Application filed November 8, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE THEOBALD, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harness-Pad Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

Before my invention the housing was attacl :d to the pad-bottom by a leather loop fasteneu to the housing and surrounding the padbottom, and the housing was also attached to the pad-top byanother loop, called the erupper-loop or housing-fastener, serving to keep the housing in place. By my method of attachment the loops at the pad-top and padbottom are done away with and the pad presents a neater finish. The housing is also more firmly attached to the pad-bottom than by the leather loop formerly used, as the loop would stretch and yield to the movement of the pad.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is a side. elevation, of my improvement.

A represents the housing; B B, the pad top and bottom. 0 is the socket-piece screwed to the pad-top. D is the pad-side, broken to show the improvement. E is the metallicfastener, which may be riveted at the end to the bottom of the housing, and attached to the socket-piece by the hook f and loop or eye g, raised from a bed-plate, h, riveted in the socket-piece; or the metallic fastener may have a cross-bar riveted on each side of the fastener, and a tongue or pin entering a slot made in the fastener and socket-piece.

tached to the plate E is a hook, j, which, passin g through the raised loop g, fastens the socket-piece and the connected pad-top and bottom pad-side and the housing securely together. This can be done as cheaply and more speedily than the old method of securing the housing to the pad-bottom, and is more secure and more satisfactory. The pad top and bottom can be detached also from the harness without removing it from the horse.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improvement in harness-pad attachments, the combination of the socket-piece 0, provided with its bed-plate h and loop g, with the slotted fastener-plate E, having the hook f, all arranged and attached substantially as 6 5 shown and described.

GEORGE THEOBALD. Witnesses:

GEORGE E. BETTON, DANIEL P. ILSLEY. 

